Sonny Rollins

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Sonny Rollins is a pioneering American jazz tenor saxophonist renowned for his powerful improvisations, influential recordings, and major contributions to the development of modern jazz.

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Sonny Rollins canonical 58

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Predicate Object
instanceOf bandleader
composer
human
jazz musician
tenor saxophonist
activeYearsStart 1940s
associatedAct Bud Powell
Clifford Brown
Jim Hall
Max Roach
Miles Davis
Modern Jazz Quartet
Ornette Coleman
Thelonious Monk
awardReceived Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
surface form: Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement

NEA Jazz Masters Award
National Medal of Arts
Polar Music Prize
birthName Theodore Walter Rollins
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1930-09-07
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Rollins
fieldOfWork improvisation
music
genre bebop
hard bop
jazz
post-bop
givenName Theodore
influenced Branford Marsalis
Chris Potter
Joe Henderson
John Coltrane
Joshua Redman
influencedBy Bud Powell
Charlie Parker
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young
Thelonious Monk
instrument soprano saxophone
tenor saxophone
movement hard bop
surface form: hard bop movement

modern jazz
name Sonny Rollins self-link
nickname Newk
notableCharacteristic powerful improvisational style
thematic improvisation
notableEvent practiced on Williamsburg Bridge in New York City
took sabbatical from performing in late 1950s
notablePlaceOfActivity New York City
Village Vanguard
notableWork A Night at the Village Vanguard
Airegin
Doxy
East Broadway Run Down
Freedom Suite
Global Warming
Newk’s Time
Oleo
Our Man in Jazz
Plus 4
Road Shows
Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
surface form: St. Thomas

Tenor Madness
The Bridge
Way Out West
placeOfBirth Harlem
New York City
spouse Lucille Pearson Rollins
website https://sonnyrollins.com

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What Is This Thing Called Love? hasNotablePerformer Sonny Rollins
subject surface form: "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
Modern Jazz Quartet associatedAct Sonny Rollins
Rollins hasNotableBearer Sonny Rollins
Riverside Records recordedArtist Sonny Rollins